Mouse quits working eventually with macOS Mojave

[bland328]

tl;dr: macOS VM virtual mouse eventually stops responding.

 

I have macOS Mojave 10.14.1 (I haven't quite figured out how to successfully update to 10.14.2 yet) working very smoothly, thanks to the excellent @SpaceInvaderOne guide at: 

 

I'm accessing this VM purely through VNC, and I'm passing through no USB ports, nor even any audio or graphics.

 

My <input>, <graphics> and <video> XML looks like this:

...
<input type='tablet' bus='usb'>
      <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/>
    </input>
    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
    <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' websocket='-1' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-us'>
      <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/>
    </graphics>
    <video>
      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/>
    </video>
...

and my usb-mouse and use-kbd XML looks like this:

...
<qemu:commandline>
    <qemu:arg value='-usb'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-device'/>
    <qemu:arg value='usb-mouse,bus=usb-bus.0'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-device'/>
    <qemu:arg value='usb-kbd,bus=usb-bus.0'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-device'/>
...

After some time, some number of VNC connections/disconnections (I sometimes use RealVNC viewer and sometimes the built-in "noVNC" VNC Remote), or some other factor I haven't considered, the mouse stops responding, but the keyboard continues to work.

 

At this point, I can't figure out any way to get it going again, except to reboot the VM.

 

The mouse always works after a fresh boot.

 

Any thoughts on what I might try, or other information that might be valuable to help others help me? Thanks, all!

Edited December 13, 2018 by bland328

[SpaceInvaderOne]

give splashtop desktop (personal) a try. Works really well https://www.splashtop.com/downloads

[bland328]

Thanks very much, @SpaceInvaderOne! I will.

 

Also, I'm a little embarrassed that I figured out the source of the problem--I hadn't disabled sleep under Mojave.

 

So, though I'd like to think that mouse support would survive sleep, I'm not shocked that it doesn't, and setting sleep to Never fixed my mouse woes.

 

I hope this post helps some other macOS KVM noob  

[SpaceInvaderOne]

@bland328 that's good you have fixed the prob. Thanks for sharing the info